Fidel Castro died last night at aged 90; by now, that’s not news.  What is news, though is the stark difference between the responses of President Obama and Cheeto Jesus.

First, the President:
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The NYT has a good opinion piece today about how we are entering uncharted waters with the ascendency of Cheeto Jesus to the (….urp) Presidency.  His conflicts are so extensive that the security and the US will be constantly and deeply threatened every minute of every day of every month of every year this dangerous demagogue infests the WH.

Balmedie, Scotland

Balmedie is a small seaside town just north of Aberdeen Scotland.  I played golf nearby years ago at the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club, just north of the city of Aberdeen, and love this little part of the world.  In Balmedie, Cheeto Jesus built the Cheeto International Golf Links on the coast after the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, overruled local officials and allowed development to begin in 2008.  Cheeto promised $1.25 billion in investment including the golf course, a 450 room hotel, and 950 time share condos.  He ended up only spending $50 million (his people say $125 million), and the project actually lost over $1 million last year.  His grand hotel? He bought a nearby manor house and converted it to a 16 room in.  Officials now admit that Balmedie only got 10 cents on the dollar of economic benefit that was promised.

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UPDATED: Cheeto Jesus continues to fill the DC swamp with more alligators and snakes; today’s addition to the primordial soup? Betsy DeVos, a Michigan billionaire who’s devoted decades and untold dollars in an effort to destroy public education.  She’s one of those cynical “school choice” activists, which is code for privatizing all education through robbing public schools to issue “vouchers” for private schools.  Privatizing education is along the same idiotic ideological lines of pretending that healthcare is “free market” when it’s anything but.  I would liken appointing DeVos to the Department of Education to nominating Dennis Hastert to be principal of an elementary school.  It just doesn’t get any worse than this.

And the hits just keep on coming.  It’s become a bit of a drinking game for me where I imagine who the absolute worst candidate for this administration could be and then when it comes true, taking a drink.  Come to think of it, I need to run to the local liquor store before it closes for the holiday.

UPDATE:  Guess who happens to be DeVos’s brother?  None other than Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, the “security” contractor that provided mercenaries in GWB’s invasion of Iraq, and whose employees engaged in a mass shooting in Iraq in 2007, killing 17.  Several of his employees have been convicted of crimes from murder to manslaughter.  Nice guys.

Prince was an early supporter of Cheeto Jesus, and has been a large contributor to hyper right wing PACs.

Computer security experts at the University of Michigan have found compelling evidence that election results in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have been altered or hacked, and have urged the campaign to challenge the election results in those states.  In Wisconsin counties alone, where electronic voting machines were used versus paper ballots, Hillary underperformed by 7%.  That 7% would swing Wisconsin to Hillary’s column. That unusual pattern caught computer experts’ attention, which indicates hacking of results.  The experts have had a conference call with John Pedestal, but nothing has come out of the campaign yet.  Apparently the White House doesn’t want Hillary to challenge, feating upheaval that they don’t want.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Every time I think of Cheeto Jesus as President of the United States, I throw up in my mouth a little bit.  As normal people understand, this bullying, bloviating, bitchy, baboonish, banal buffoon is manifestly unqualified to occupy the oval office, and that’s a huge problem with global consequences.  Hard to imagine though, and to make matters worse, is that there is a magnifier to this problem: his businesses.

Cheeto Jesus has multiple enterprises that come under the parent holding company, Cheeto Organization LLC.  Within the holdings are interests in real estate and other businesses in the US, Ireland, Canada, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Scotland, Dubai, and other countries.  His financial ties are tangled, but at least some of his debt is tied to the Bank of China.

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